asked the Minister for Agriculture if his attention has been drawn to a recent issue of the Journal of An Foras Talúntais, which contains a report of a survey conducted on thirty-five farms on the operational capacity of varying types of milking machines; if he has noted that the report states that some machines were structurally defective, while all were operationally defective; if he will get from the Dairy Research Centre more detailed information on the types found to be structurally defective and have this information made available to dairy farmers through their creamery societies; and if, in the almost complete absence of any mechanical or advisory service by the manufacturers or their sales agents, he will ask the creamery societies to provide such a service.
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